Airsoft players got excited again when RedWolf Airsoft posted on their Facebook Wall announcing that SOCOM Gear will be having the Kel-Tec KSG Shotgun for the airsoft market. It sounds like fresh news but it really is not as MadBull Airsoft announced in August 2012 that they will be producing one. SOCOM Gear is the sister company of MadBull which complete airsoft guns are sold under the brand whilst MadBull focuses on upgrade parts ad weapons accessories.

Since the announcement of in 2012, we never heard about the project from MadBull Airsoft on the progress of the project that we thought it might be the KRISS Vector project all over again. MadBull was supposed to make the airsoft KRISS Vector which they revealed in 2008 but the project eventually ended with KWA making one, after 5 years of waiting by the airsoft market. However, this posting by RedWolf Airsoft squashes the thought that it might become vaporware and it is apt that SOCOM Gear should be the brand to release the Kel-Tec KSG as the previous Kel-Tec product, the PMR pistol, was also under SOCOM Gear.

The Kel-Tec KSG should bring even more life in the shotgun segment of the airsoft market, which was recently brightened up with the release of the gas-powered Tokyo Marui M870 Tactical Shotgun. The Marui M870 brings new innovation in Shotgun, which previously was more of a novelty rather than something serious to use in a CQB game.

Also, the Kel-Tec KSG is a unique shotgun as it has two tube magazines that can hold seven 12-gauge shells which the shooter selects which magazine to use. This makes the Kel-Tec very useful in close quarters combat and with the heavier shell capacity, allows lesser reload frequency. Thus, it will be interesting to find out how SOCOM Gear would be able to implement the same and if we can also have the option of at 3 to 6 BB rounds that can be fired like the Marui M870 Tactical. We will be curious on how what power source it will be using too.

Details are still sketchy as we are taking information from a third party rather than direct from SOCOM Gear. For now, those wanting to have this shotgun for the airsoft market will have to cross fingers until something definite will be announced by the company.

Also, will someone also bring the bad, bad UTS-15 also to airsoft? With the UTS-15 and Kel-Tec KSG, airsoft shotguns would now be awesome to use.